One of the designers who made it happen

Winner
- GDT Design

To the next lucky website contest holder,
Consider yourself fortunate if GDT Design chooses to participate in your design contest. I cannot say enough about GDT Design. He won an ultra competitive website challenge with SIX amazing and super creative finalists. I gave GDT copious, detailed notes, and he followed them to the letter, while continuing to produce elegant, crisp designs. He has no ego--meaning, he eagerly accepts feedback and corrections, and had no problem adapting his creative to fit my business needs. A desirable trait in such a talented person!
I have very high standards, and GDT met or exceeded them all.
GDT did a fantastic job of utilizing my logo elements and weaved them intricately throughout all the pages of my website design challenge. He also created a strong stylized aesthetic which really added character to my website. During the design process, it was clear that he did a good job reading the design brief and understood what was required of him; this meant that his initial designs were of high quality. After the job was done (he was already declared the winner of the contest), when he found out I could not afford one of the images he used, he gladly found and replaced the image with a more reasonable alternative.
GDT is a nice guy, a talented artist, and a true design partner. I look forward to working with him in the future.
Sincerely,
Bernard Lee

- gamutind

How _eric started their web page design journey

Summary

We make custom baseball hats, customers can design their own hat online, we get around 30 000 visitors a month, so we need to look good. a 2nd and 3rd prize also given.

Company name

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

we need a new exciting look, our customers are aged 15-60, our website is ranked number 1 in google and we are one of the top online personalised cap sites around so we want to fix the design to project that. the site NEEDS to look FUN, cool, exciting, simple with no clutter. Dont forget our customers are also tradesman, business owners, as well, not just teenagers/skaters.

Although there are quite a few pages to do, it's only the 'content' part you need to design.

If you can code the design into xhtml/css, we can give you another $50 for that. but it is not required.

We would like room for a newsletter signup

and at the bottom some room for testimonials (1 testimonial at a time is ok - it will rotate)

I like the idea of having "Why choose us" and below have Money Back guarantee, number 1 in customer service, fast and fun ordering, fast worldwide delivery, no minimum or maximum order.. this is just a thought - not a must...

a logo we need updated but not to different from the current one. we also would like suggestions to the current wording.

2nd prize = $150, 3rd prize $75, will be announced at end of contest. Also design ideas will be payed for exclusive use